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</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 24px;">2015</span></font></div><div><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Learn more about six other national groups playing in the 2015 races:</font></p><ul helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 28px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Republican Attorneys General Association</strong>, a national organization looking to fill every attorney general seat with a Republican, spent $1.1 million on ads in Kentucky’s race. Its major donors over the past 13 years include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, businessman Sheldon Adelson and the conservative Judicial Crisis Network. Democratic corporate attorney Andy Beshear beat out Republican Whitney Westerfield, despite the group’s support.</font></li></ul><ul helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 28px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Republican State Leadership Committee</strong>, a tax-exempt group looking to fill state-level offices with Republicans, spent an estimated $988,000 on ads about the Pennsylvania Supreme Court race, losing all three races to Democrats. Its top donors include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the conservative legal group American Justice Partnership and tobacco company Reynolds American.</font></li></ul><ul helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 28px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Public Integrity Alliance</strong>, a nonprofit that can keep its donors hidden, entered the attorneys general races in Louisiana and Mississippi, spending an estimated $213,000 combined airing TV ads targeting Republican Buddy Caldwell and Democrat Jim Hood. Caldwell lost his race, while Hood won. This group based in Arizona played in the 2014 Arizona attorney general primary and expanded its efforts after unnamed activists asked for help, according to its president, Tyler Montague.</font></li></ul><ul helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 28px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Center for Individual Freedom</strong> spent more than $748,000 on ads attacking Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell during his fight to hold his position. Caldwell lost to former U.S. Rep. Jeff Landry in an all-Republican runoff. Tobacco executives formed the Virginia-based nonprofit more than 15 years ago to combat government smoking restrictions. The nonprofit, which does not need to disclose its donors, has generally backed conservative candidates across the country, airing ads in the 2014 contests for Arkansas attorney general and Michigan Supreme Court.</font></li></ul><ul helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 28px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Humane Society Legislative Fund</strong>, the lobbying arm of the animal rights protection group, supported Vitter in the Louisiana governor’s race by buying an estimated $116,000 worth of ads.</font></li></ul><ul helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 28px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Bluegrass Action Fund</strong> backed unsuccessful Republican Hal Heiner for the Kentucky governorship, spending an estimated $233,000 on campaign ads. About a third of its donations came from the nonprofit Citizens for a Sound Government based in Lakewood, Colorado, which does not disclose its donors. Its chairman is Alan Philp, the COO of Aegis Strategic, a group funded by David and Charles Koch.</font></li></ul></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>=</div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 24px;"></span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 24px;">neg ads </span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="https://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/12/03/18903/where-do-ads-shaping-state-politics-come-increasingly-these-outside-players">https://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/12/03/18903/where-do-ads-shaping-state-politics-come-increasingly-these-outside-players</a></span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 24px;">
</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 24px;">2015</span></font></div><div><p helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Learn more about six other national groups playing in the 2015 races:</font></p><ul helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 28px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Republican Attorneys General Association</strong>, a national organization looking to fill every attorney general seat with a Republican, spent $1.1 million on ads in Kentucky’s race. Its major donors over the past 13 years include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, businessman Sheldon Adelson and the conservative Judicial Crisis Network. Democratic corporate attorney Andy Beshear beat out Republican Whitney Westerfield, despite the group’s support.</font></li></ul><ul helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 28px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Republican State Leadership Committee</strong>, a tax-exempt group looking to fill state-level offices with Republicans, spent an estimated $988,000 on ads about the Pennsylvania Supreme Court race, losing all three races to Democrats. Its top donors include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the conservative legal group American Justice Partnership and tobacco company Reynolds American.</font></li></ul><ul helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 28px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Public Integrity Alliance</strong>, a nonprofit that can keep its donors hidden, entered the attorneys general races in Louisiana and Mississippi, spending an estimated $213,000 combined airing TV ads targeting Republican Buddy Caldwell and Democrat Jim Hood. Caldwell lost his race, while Hood won. This group based in Arizona played in the 2014 Arizona attorney general primary and expanded its efforts after unnamed activists asked for help, according to its president, Tyler Montague.</font></li></ul><ul helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 28px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Center for Individual Freedom</strong> spent more than $748,000 on ads attacking Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell during his fight to hold his position. Caldwell lost to former U.S. Rep. Jeff Landry in an all-Republican runoff. Tobacco executives formed the Virginia-based nonprofit more than 15 years ago to combat government smoking restrictions. The nonprofit, which does not need to disclose its donors, has generally backed conservative candidates across the country, airing ads in the 2014 contests for Arkansas attorney general and Michigan Supreme Court.</font></li></ul><ul helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 28px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Humane Society Legislative Fund</strong>, the lobbying arm of the animal rights protection group, supported Vitter in the Louisiana governor’s race by buying an estimated $116,000 worth of ads.</font></li></ul><ul helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 28px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Bluegrass Action Fund</strong> backed unsuccessful Republican Hal Heiner for the Kentucky governorship, spending an estimated $233,000 on campaign ads. About a third of its donations came from the nonprofit Citizens for a Sound Government based in Lakewood, Colorado, which does not disclose its donors. Its chairman is Alan Philp, the COO of Aegis Strategic, a group funded by David and Charles Koch.</font></li></ul></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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